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Tensura was already a pretty safe anime, but had some interesting ideas, and some very high moments.
I actually enjoyed season 1 and 2.
Sadly season 3 bring it down, a lot.

First my thoughts on the season:
There were many, many, MANY meetings, most of them could've been compressed into small scenes, or even a summary from one person.
This made most of the season very boring, to the point that I watched it on 2.0x speed by the end. (No anime ever made me do this before.)
The small amount of fight scenes did not really help either, as they were cut very short, and even those parts were ... rarely anything special.
And yes, there was potential for great fights or at least showing some power levels here and there.
I had no problem with the production value, but it's funny to think about praising art and animation when most of the season was spent in static rooms, with maybe mouth movements.

Now, something I feel like I have to write about adaptations using Tensura S3 as an example:
Not all written stories are worth adapting faithfully into animation.
As written above, a lot of the season could be a lot shorter with smarter writing and adaptation techniques, leaving it shorter, or at least more time for something else. I understand the everyone who read the novels are defending the season, and I get it. But if you take a step back and look into what made S1 and S2 good as an anime, you will see it's not 90% world building in meeting rooms.
And at that point you'll have to realize that people are not hating because its not a shounen anime with hyperpowered fights every scene, it's because the base material is not interesting as a 1:1 adaptation.

My conclusion:
I just dropped this series, it will probably get better, I read some spoilers here and there, but honestly I can't recommend this to myself, and neither to anyone else.